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NA61 experiment
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NA61/SHINE (standing for "SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment") is a particle physics experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).[1] The experiment studies the hadronic final states produced in interactions of various beam particles (pions, protons and beryllium, argon, and xenon nuclei) with a variety of fixed nuclear targets at the SPS energies.
Quick Facts Formation, Headquarters ...
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Formation | Data taking started on 18-04-2008 |
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Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
Leader of Experiment | Marek Gazdzicki |
Website | https://shine.web.cern.ch/ |
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Quick Facts Key SPS Experiments, UA1 ...
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Key SPS Experiments | |
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UA1 | Underground Area 1 |
UA2 | Underground Area 2 |
NA31 | NA31 Experiment |
NA32 | Investigation of Charm Production in Hadronic Interactions Using High-Resolution Silicon Detectors |
COMPASS | Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy |
SHINE | SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment |
NA62 | NA62 Experiment |
SPS preaccelerators | |
p and Pb | Linear accelerators for protons (Linac 2) and Lead (Linac 3) |
(not marked) | Proton Synchrotron Booster |
PS | Proton Synchrotron |
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About 135 physicists from 14 countries and 35 institutions work in NA61/SHINE, led by Marek Gazdzicki. NA61/SHINE is the second largest fixed target experiment at CERN.